Abstract: This paper addresses the communication barriers faced by individuals with speaking and hearing disabilities through the utilization of deep learning techniques. Our System consists of two ...

Abstract: Satellite imagery is a readily available data source for monitoring a broad range of urban geographical contexts related to environmental, socio-demographic, and health disparities. To ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded the lo-fi website, internet lingo was making its way into the mainstream ...

Slang's role is shifting as digital culture spreads and dilutes new expressions quickly. Social media and AI have made slang more mainstream, reducing its power to signal belonging. Inventing personal ...

Every year has its own batch of flash-in-the-pan slang, which often emerges seemingly out of nowhere among younger generations (before, typically, just as often falling out of fashion a year or two ...

What's tha laikin at? Put wood in t'oil. I'm starved 'ere. It's not a foreign language, and it's not a snippet from the 1980s children's drama Jonny Briggs. Although the storyline would have ...

It’s the new slang word taking Gen Z by storm – but do you know what it means if someone calls you ‘unc’? The description has spread like wildfire on social media in recent months, appearing across ...

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...

The holiday season is about spending time with loved ones, which also means hearing all of the random words and phrases the young ones have picked up since you saw them last year. No thanks to the ...

3. "I really like 'mid.' I like to review things, and there are so many things that are 'aggressively mediocre,' but before 'mid,' I didn't have a word or phrase that really captured the feeling. Even ...